Like anyone who has thought about the problem of race for more than five minutes, I find the topic of language and terminology vexing. Terms like racism, anti-blackness, ethnocentric, antiracist, white supremacy, whiteness, prejudice, (and now quite unfortunately) woke or anti-woke do a lot of work that perhaps they are not meant to do or cover overlapping territories that then get mapped onto our experiences and ideologies. In short, it’s a mess.
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